Churchyard Gates, Gate Piers And Walls To Church Of St James

TEIGNMOUTH

SX9373 EXETER STREET 25-1/4/147 (West side) Churchyard gates, gate piers and walls to Church of St James

GV II

Walls gate piers and gates enclosing the churchyard of St James' Church. 1821 with some later C19 work. Red sandstone rubble walls, gate piers with limestone caps and cast-iron and wrought-iron gates. Substantial gate piers flanking the path approx 20m from the west door have stepped shallow pyramidal caps supporting cast-iron gates approx 2m high. The gates resemble long/short railings but have interlacing tracery to the central horizontal bar with spade-head tops and arrow-head tops to the upper rails; rails are square in section. C20 segmental steel arches bolted to the top of each gate have pointed spikes. The wall extends approx 35m to the north, turns east for approx 25m, turns north again for approx 6m and east again for approx 6m. In the angle thus formed is the tomb of Thomas Luny (qv). The wall descends the hill for approx 70m to meet the north-east angle of the the church. Approx 10m from the north end are double wrought-iron gates approx 2m high with square-section long/short rails with heavy arrow heads to upper and lower rails. The south-east angle of the church is connected to the west gates by a curved revetment wall enclosing the south side of the churchyard. It extends approx 110m and approx 27m from the east end is a long/short-railed gate and steps.

Listing NGR: SX9395273070